NUMBER AND TITLE OF HOUSE BILLS WHICH HAVE
BECOME LAWS.
No. 1. An act appropriating $125,000 to defray the expenses of the regular session of the Fifty-third General Assembly of the State of Indiana and other matters connected therewith.
No. 118. An act to amend Section 9 (the same being Section 4,968 of the Revised Statutes of 1881) of an act entitled "An act concerning the General Assembly, business therein and Committees and Clerks thereof, and declaring an emergency, approved April 21,1881.
No. 150. An act relative so the appointment of Judge pro tem. for Criminal Courts, and empowering them to hold and discharge the duties of Criminal Courts and fixing and providing for compensation of such Judges pro tem.
No. 148. An act ceding the jurisdiction of this State over certain lands owned and to be owned and held by the United States;
No. 34. An act to legalize the election of the Board of Trustees and all other officers of the town of Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana, for the years of 1882 and 1883, and to legalize all of their official acts by laws, ordinances, regulations and proceedings passed, adopted and executed by them under and ia pursuance of an act entitled "An act for the incorporation of towns, defining their powers, providing for the election of officers thereof, and declaring their duties;" approved June 11,1852.
No. 414, An act appropriating $40,000 for the relief of the sufferers on the Ohio, Wabash and White Rivers in the State of Indiana from the recent flood, providing for the expenditure of the same.
No. 32. An act to create the Forty-third Judicial Circuit, to amend Sections 15, 16 and 18 of an act entitled "An act to divide the State into Circuits for Judicial purposes; fixing the time for holding Courts thereto, abolishing the Courts of Common Pleas and transferring the business thereof to the Circuit Courts, and providing for the election of Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys in certain cases," approved March 6,1873; and also to amend Section 54 of said act, as amended by an act entitled "An act to amend said Section 51," approved March 13,1877; and also to provide for holding terms of Court in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Forty-third Circuits; providing for the appointment of a Judge for the Forty-third Judicial Circuit; and other matters connected therewith and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
House concurrent resolution, No. 11. In relation to the flood suffering and requesting our Representatives and Senators in Congress to ask for an appropriation from the general Government for their benefit
No. 67. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, and to legalize each and every official act of the several Boards of Trustees of said incorporation, and all other acts of each and every officer of the same.
No. 66, An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Syracuse, in Kosciusko County, in the State of Indiana, and to legalize each and every official act of the several Boards of Trustees of said town, under an act entitled "'An act for the incorporation of towns, defining their power, Providing and declaring their duties," approved June 11, 1852, and all by-laws, ordinance and proceedings adopted in pursuance thereof,
No. 22. An set to legalize the assessment of taxes made by the Board of Trustees of the incorporated town of Winchester, in the County of Randolph, in Indiana, as levied by said Board of trustees for the year 1881, and the proceeding of the proper officers in relation thereto, and to empower the proper officers to collect said taxes.
No. 27. An act appropriating for the completion of the construction and furnishing of the department for women of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and for the construction of a warehouse and two coal houses for said Institution.
No. 413. An act for the relief of W Heaggy, former Treasurer of Madison County, Indiana, and Simon M. Cos, Joel Epperly, Louis Loeb, William Kirk, Samuel Fesler, J. A, Pence, Isaac D. Honest, George Heaggy, A. C. Vermillion, Au
page: 301[View Page 301]ustus Heaggy, William G. Pittsford, Albert J. Rose, Samuel Peace, Lee M. Frees, Michael Ryan, Adam Mason, Elijah D. Walden, Anthony Mabitti, Jesse Vermillion and the estates of Milton Kidwell and Jacob Fuller, deceased, sureties upon his bond as such Treasurer.
No. 461. An act to amend Section 4 of an act entitled "An act to create the Forty-third Judicial Circuit;" to amend Sections 16,16 and 43 of an act entitled "An act to divide the State Into Circuits for Judicial purposes, fixing the time for holding Courts therein, abolishing the Courts of Common Pleas and transferring the business thereof to the Circuit Courts, and providing for the election of Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys in certain cases," approved March 6, 1873; and also to amend Section 54 of said act as amended by an act entitled "An act to amend said Section 51," approved March 13, 1877; and also to provide for holding terms of Court in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Forty-third Circuits; providing for the appointment of a Judge for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit and other matters COB- nested therewith, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith and declaring an emergency for me Immediate taking effect' of this act.
No. 5, An act concerning town elections, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith.
No. 419. An act appropriating the sum of $60,000 for the relief of persons who are suffering and destitute by reason of the prevailing high waters of the Ohio, Wabash and While Rivers; creating a Provisional Board of Relief to disburse said appropriation, providing for a record and report of he manner of such disbursements. ^
No. 200. An act providing for the payment of certain claims to the persons therein named for labor performed by them, in ditching swamp lands in Tipton County, under employment by the Swamp Land Commissioners of that County.
No. 52. An act to provide for the construction of a sewer from the grounds owned by the State at or near the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls so as to connect such sewer with one of the principal sewers of the city of Indianapolis.
No. 285. An act to fix the times of holding Courts in the Second Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana, fixing the length of terms thereof, providing for the return of process therein, repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
No. 346. An act concerning legal advertising in certain cases, repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
No. 369. An act concerning certain duties of certain State, County and Township officers, making them liable on their official bond for failure to perform the same, providing for the collection of the same and the payment to the proper officer.
No. 407. An act to amend Section 4 of an act approved March 5, 1873, and of the Revised Statutes (4,556), and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith.
No. 117. An act to amend Sections 255. 256 and 157 of an act entitled "An act Concerning Taxation," approved March 29, 1881.
No. 30, Ah act to amend Section 8 of an act entitled an act regulating the adoption of heirs, approved March 2,1855.
No. 333 An act to legalize the incorporation of the Shelbyville and Marietta Turnpike Company of Shelby County, Indiana, and to legalize all the acts thereof and all contracts made by and with aid Association, and all the official acts of the several Boards ot Directors thereof under "An act authorizing the construction of plank and gravel roads," approved May 12,1852.
No. 61. An act for the relief of the Township Trusteee, legalizing certain acts performed by them.
No. 224. An act legalizing the corporation of the town of Carbon, in the County of Clay, and State of Indiana, the election and qualification of its Board of Trustees and other officers and their official acts.
No. 270. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Oakland, Gibson County, Indiana, and to legalize the election and official aces of the Board of Trustees and other officers of said town.
No. 372. An act concerning voluntary association for the purpose of forming Gymnastic or Turnverein Associations, and authorizing: such Associations to hold real and personal property, by purchase, gift or devises, to sell and convey the same, legalizing all such Associations heretofore formed to or made by such. Associations.
No, 170, An act providing for the sale of escheated estates, the disposal of the proceeds thereof, authorizing the execution of deed thereof.
No. 280. An act touching the duties of Township Trustees with reference to liquidating and contracting indebtedness of Townships in certain oases.
No. 230. An act to legalize the sale ot certain real estate in Counersville, Ind., belonging to the estate of Joseph Emmisburger, deceased, by Delona E. Williamson, attorney in fact, for the adult heirs and guardian of the minor heirs of said Emmisburger, to Edward F. Claypool.
No. 308. An act to amend sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Trustees of Hartsville Academy, approved January 12, 1850.
No. 13. An act concerning the use of firearms.
No. 256. An act to provide a fund for the permanent endowment of the Indiana University, and for the Investment of the same.
No. 31. An act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners to grant bounties for the destruction of woodchucks, hawks and owls.
No. 420. An act providing means for the erection of the new State House, providing for the assessment and collection of certain taxes thereafter, and making certain appropriation therefor.
No. 103. An act concerning liens of mechanics, laborers and material men.
No. 286. An act empowering manufacturing companies to take and hold stock in corporations furnishing water power, and legalizing purchase of such stock by such company.
No. 161. An act to amend Sections 222 and 227 of an act entitled "An act concerning taxation," approved March 29,1881. the same being Sections 6,491 and 6,496 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, and to provide for the sale of lots and lauds to the highest bidder for cash in certain cases.
No. 53. An act to legalize the acts of the corporation of, the town of Bennettsville, in White County, in the State of Indiana, and to legalize all subsequent and each and every official act of the several Boards of Trustees, and of all other officers of said corporation, under an act for the in- corporation of towns, defining their powers, providing for the election of officers thereof, and declaring their duties, approved June 11, 1852, and by-laws, rules and regulations and proceedings adopted in pursuance thereof.
No. 397. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Roachdale, Putnam County, Indiana, and to legalize ail the acts, by-laws and ordinances of said corporation, and all contracts made with and by said corporation.
No. 380 An act to legalize the incorporation of the Daleville and Bull Creek Turnpike Company of Delaware County, Indiana, and to legalize all the acts thereof and all contracts made by and with said Turnpike Company and all the official acts of the several Boards of Directors thereof, to legalize and restore the charter of said Turnpike Company.
No. 366. A n act relative to Maple Grove Cemetery In Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.
No. 329. An act to authorize the Auditor of State to issue patents in certain cases in the name of the State of Indiana to purchasers of Wabash and Erie Canal bonds in said Scale, and to deliver the same to the purchasers or their grantees.
No. 408. An act to amend Sections 1, 21 and 42
page: 302[View Page 302]of an act entitled "An act to amend an act to provide tor a general system of Common Schools, the officers thereof and their respective powers and duties and matters properly connected therewith, and prescribing for certain officers therein named and for the establishment and regulation of Township Libraries and to repeal all laws Inconsistent therewith, providing penalties therein prescribed," approved March 6,1865, and adding supplemental sections thereto approved March 8, 1873.
No. 198. An act for the relief of Alien Lupton, John Peters, Henry Edris, Ell Holiday and Sarah A. Bonier.
No. 55. An act to prevent the sale of impure butter, and the keeping on any table at any hotel or boarding house, impure butter; providing penalties.
No. 227. An act to legalize the election of the Board of Trustees and all other officers of the town of Jasper, Dubois County, Ind., for the years of 1879. 1880. 1851 and 1882; and to legalize all their official acts, by-laws, ordinances, regulations and proceedings parsed and executed by them under and in pursuance of an act entitled "An act for the incorporation of towns; defending their powers; providing for the election of officers thereof; declaring their duties," approved June 11,1862.
No. 429. An act appropriating money for erecting family buildings, putting in gas and for drainage at the House of Refuge, providing how said money shall be drawn from the State.
No. 29. An act to enable the several Counties of this State to sell and dispose of lands forfeited to the State for the use and benefit of the school fund, and providing for the deficiency in said school fund occasioned by such sale, and repealing all laws in conflict.
No. 359. An act in relation to the lighting of cities and towns and furnishing the inhabitants thereof with the electric light and other forms of light, and providing for the right of way and the assessment of damages.
No. 160. An act to prohibit the gelling, bartering or giving away the questions prepared by the State Board of Education to be used by County Superintendents in the examination of teachers, and providing penalties therefor.
No. 381. An act to fix the time of holding Circuit Courts in the Forty-second Judicial Circuit, and to repeal all laws in conflict with the act.
No. 176. An act to amend Section 108 of an act entitled an act concerning taxation.
No. 176. An act to amend Section 108 of an act entitled an act concerning taxation.
No. 418. An act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Cherubsco, in the County of Whitie, and State of Indiana, and to legalize the election, qualification and the official acts of the said town of Cherubusco.
No. 223. An act to amend sections 5, 23, 47, 66, 86, 93. 95, 96, 97, 98, 100,101, 102. 104, 115,126,151, 153, 157, 158,159,160, 164, 165, 168, 169, 176, 180, 183, 199, 207, 2 8, 215 and 241 of an act entitled " An act to provide for the settlement of decedents estates," approved April 14,1881, and to repeal Sections 4,103,106,162 and 200 of said act.
No. 57. This bill became a law without the approval of the Governor. An act to provide for the taxation of dogs, to regulate matters connected therewith, and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, entitled "An act to protect sheep husbandry, to regulate matters connected therewith, to provide for regulations taxing and killing dogs " approved April 13, 1881.
No. 149. An act to amend Section 367 of an act entitled "An act concerning proceedings in civil cases," approved April 7,1881.
No. 193. An act to amend Section 1 of an act entitled "An act providing for the election and I qualification of Justices of the Peace and defining their jurisdiction, powers and duties in civil cases," approved June 9, 1853, being Section 1,418 of the Revised Statutes,
No. 31. An act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners to grant bounties for the destruction of woodchucks, hawks and owls.
[This bill became a law without the Governor's signature.]
No. 293. An act to provide for organizing and regulating the business of Life Insurance Corporations, Associations and Societies transacting business on what is known a the assessment plan, and fixing penalties for the violation of its provisions.
